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Lynn Levin is a poet and writer. She is the author of nine books, most recently, her debut collection of short stories House Parties (2023). Widely published as a poet, Levin’s five poetry collections include The Minor Virtues (2020); Miss Plastique (2013), a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry; Fair Creatures of an Hour (2009), a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry; Imaginarium (2005), a finalist for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award; and A Few Questions about Paradise (2000). She is co-author, with Valerie Fox, of Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets (2019, 2013), a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in writing/publishing. She is the translator, from the Spanish, of Birds on the Kiswar Tree (2014), poems by the Peruvian Andean poet Odi Gonzales. Levin is also the producer/director of the 2017 video documentary Life on the Napo River: A Glimpse of the Ecuadoran Amazon, Its People, and Their Traditions. 

Lynn Levin’s poems, short fiction, translations, and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Boulevard, The Hopkins Review, Rattle, Artful Dodge, Verse Daily, E-Verse Radio, Scientific American (forthcoming), on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, The Broadkill Review, Amarillo Bay, JewishFiction.net, Cleaver, Mandorla, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, and other places. Appearances in anthologies include Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (forthcoming), Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, Nasty Women Poets, Rabbit Ears: Poems about TV, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, and The Torah: A Women’s Commentary. Levin’s short story “Tell Us about Your Experience” won first prize in the 2021 Bucks County Short Fiction Contest. Her essay “How to Eat a Pet” was listed as a Notable Essay of 2006 by Robert Atwan in Best American Essays. Lynn Levin has received fifteen Pushcart Prize nominations, including a Pushcart Special Mention in poetry. A Bucks County, Pennsylvania poet laureate, she has received grants from the Leeway Foundation and was twice a guest on NPR’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane. Levin often appears as a featured presenter at workshops, in reading series, and at community events. Book groups have included her books as their selections.   

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Lynn Levin holds a BA in comparative literature from Northwestern University and an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. A former producer of the TV talk-show The Drexel InterView, Lynn Levin has also had careers in publishing and advertising. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and teaches English and creative writing at Drexel University, where she received the Adjunct Award for Teaching Excellence. For many years, she taught creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.